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...National League's train and plane fares for a summer schedule would shoot up as much as $35,000 per team if two teams went West. The cost of accommodating only one California club would have been prohibitive. O'Malley had already picked out his patsy. Horace Stoneham's New York Giants were going broke up in the Polo Grounds. O'Malley simply called San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher, invited him to New York and introduced him to Horace...
...Dodgers move to Los Angeles. Frick hastily sent a telegram to the Dodgers' Walter O'Malley saying that all talk of transfers "is harmful to baseball." So O'Malley went back to chattering about building a new stadium in Brooklyn, and the Giants' Horace Stoneham talked wistfully of staying in New York. But Mayor Christopher went home and announced: "Anyone guessing that there would be major-league baseball here in 1958 wouldn't be far wrong...
...time." ¶ A few weeks earlier than usual, big-league baseball began its autumn managerial shuffle. After eight years, Lippy Leo Durocher and the New York Giants parted company. Everyone was still friends; everyone was very happy-or so Leo and Giant President Horace Stoneham insisted. When asked if he was through with baseball, Leo was more coy still. Would he move to the Cardinals? The Braves? Television? For once, Leo was not talking. The new Giant manager: ex-Giant Bill Rigney, now managing the Millers, the Giants' Minneapolis farm club. In Pittsburgh, Pirates Manager Fred Haney spoke with...
...Ghosts of last year's world champions, the New York Giants, faltering in the National League's fourth place, were ambushed in Minneapolis at an exhibition game with their farm club, bowed to the Millers, 9-5. This ignominy triggered some rumors, led Club President Horace Stoneham, on the spot, to issue two flat denials: 1) Giant Manager Leo ("the Lip") Durocher has no intention of quitting, nor will he be fired; 2) the Giants will not leave New York. The Giants, however, did leave fading (34) Outfielder Monte Irvin, key man on the pennant-winning club...
Then the Giants called up Willie Mays, who was hitting a fancy .477 for the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, the Giants' No. 1 farm team. Willie had already made himself so popular in Minneapolis that the Giants' President Stoneham felt obliged to publish ads in the local Minneapolis newspapers to apologize for taking the young man away. But in his first days as a Giant, 20-year-old Willie was a flop. The rookie got only one lonesome hit in his first 26 times...